No, he's coming after you for using crazy American date formats. In civilised countries such as the UK, we would put 17/02/92.

Yup.

B.J. wrote:

If anyone was civilized, they'd use a format that couldn't be screwed up or misinterpreted, like 1992/02/17, which is what is required to be used on military documents.

It's just as likely to be misinterpreted as 17/2/1992, which is what we use. If "the military" use that format, my guess is only only because being seen using anything European will send them into fits of convulsions.